What if there's a phone ringing in the ghost realm?
What should you do if you receive mechanical products of unknown origin at home?
These strange questions sparked much speculation, and Yin Zhu also offered a seemingly plausible answer, all centered on the idea that those who followed the rules were trying to "escape danger," further intensifying the sense of terror.
8. Humans rarely come to this world. If you intend to launch an attack, please ensure that the target is human.
9. Do not communicate with humans in any way.
These two points are purely to make it more difficult for monsters to distinguish them, and can be considered as providing some minor assistance to humans who accidentally get stuck in this world.
[10. The regional rules prior to the "New Rules of the Ghost Realm" remain in effect. Please abide by the rules set by the ghost lords of each region.]
11. Do not touch the spider lily directly with your body, and always remain alert.
The spider lily (Lycoris radiata) is highly poisonous and should never be ingested. Symptoms include gradually stiffening of the tongue, vomiting, cold extremities, shock, and ultimately paralysis and death.
The "additional rules" that Yin Zhu mentioned when he first encountered the lizardmen are now being added after rule number 11.
[12. When you suspect you are losing your sanity, silently recite "Hundred Ghosts' Heavenly Way" repeatedly in front of the shrine until everything returns to normal.]
[13. Regardless of whose image the King of a Hundred Demons in the shrine represents, you must clearly realize that they are all incarnations of the creators of the "New Rules of the Demon Realm."]
14. When you are ready to leave the Ghost Realm, follow the main group and do not look back.
Much of this set of rules is based on Yin Zhu's understanding of the world itself, so there is no such thing as "the rules will not form a collective binding force if I don't follow them".
Once you see these rules, you've already fallen into a trap.
Do you remember how Yin Zhu saved that chosen one from Xingjia when she was on Blue Star? At that time, even a person in a vegetative state could easily violate Yin Zhu's first two rules.
Breathing and drinking water.
Therefore, if you want the indigenous people to "follow" the rules, you just need to reverse the logic from before.
What rules would Indigenous people definitely not refuse?
Thus, the second rule came about, concerning the names of the monsters' weaknesses—[2. Remember your real name, but don't tell anyone, or you'll bear the consequences.]
Even without this rule, no monster with a brain would reveal its name.
So this is a disguised way of following the rules.
Yin Zhu had certainly considered the possibility that the monsters might refuse to follow the rules. In that case, he would provide the native inhabitants of the ghost realm with a few rules that they absolutely could not refuse, thus giving his own rules more power.
Would any monster really want to try and see the consequences of breaking this rule? Obviously, the rule is already in effect, which means no monster is trying to court death.
Yin Zhu smiled, quite satisfied with the current effect of the rules.
If no one abides by the "New Rules of the Ghost Realm," what Yin Zhu holds in his hand would probably just be a piece of waste paper. But now, it has resonated with Yin Zhu's own golden talent, indicating that the spread of this rule has reached the point where the rule has begun to take effect.
Perhaps the unspoken ideal ending is a fairytale-like one, where humans and monsters live in peace.
Or perhaps they want to see the chosen one make a painful choice between humans and ghosts—if they choose to clear the game and lead the ghosts back to the human world, it would be equivalent to abandoning humanity; if they choose the native humans, the chosen one will not be able to clear the game and will also implicate their own country.
However, Yin Zhu didn't care about the ending at all.
All she's doing now is exploring the world's possibilities to the best of her ability.
Moreover, now that the chosen ones of Blue Star should all know that the dungeon is just an interactive death video, how many people would care about the natives who sacrificed themselves when clearing the dungeon?
It's just dying again.
As for the last three rules of "New Rules of the Ghost Realm", they correspond to Yin Zhu's three expectations: respect, substitution, and obedience.
Shuten-dōji knew that the shrine would facilitate the control of all demons.
Coincidentally, Yin Zhu also found out.
Therefore, Yin Zhu wrote down the twelfth rule: [When you suspect that your sanity is failing, please silently recite "Hundred Ghosts Heavenly Way" repeatedly in front of the shrine until everything returns to normal.]
Yin Zhu not only knew that the shrine was beneficial for ruling over all ghosts, but also strengthened the shrine's use. It was not only used to monitor all ghosts in a roundabout way and to achieve instant teleportation through this thing as an anchor point, but also to elevate it to the level of "being able to cleanse spiritual pollution".
By profiting from this, the ghosts and monsters will become even more genuinely respectful of the shrine.
This is something Yin Zhu learned in the Cyber Myth dungeon.
However, simply strengthening the shrine wouldn't replace Shuten-dōji; it would only benefit someone else. Therefore, Yin Zhu wrote down the thirteenth rule:
[13. Regardless of whose image the King of a Hundred Demons in the shrine represents, you must clearly realize that they are all incarnations of the creators of the "New Rules of the Demon Realm."]
This is a blatant power grab.
Regardless of whose image is depicted in the shrine, it does not diminish the fear that the demons have of this rule.
Therefore, as long as they connect the shrine with the rule-makers, Yin Zhu can use this established bridge to successfully steal Shuten-dōji's faith power.
Finally, echoing the beginning and end, it once again paints a grand picture:
14. When you are ready to leave the Ghost Realm, follow the main group and do not look back.
Yin Zhu didn't know when the gate to the Ghost Realm would open, but that didn't stop him from making grand promises. After all, the Mirror Ghost in "Grand Theft Auto" had already enjoyed countless promises from Yin Zhu.
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